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Re: Weird vibe on new assistant editor on TMP

PostPosted: Thu Feb 19, 2015 12:33 am
by TwoGunBob
Likely reason one, Bill's oiled up fingers slipped.
Possible reason two, an Editor overstepped her authority and accidentally burned TMP down when trying to update the Manufacturer's Directory.
Outside bets, Bill is preemptively clearing the boards so no one will miss them when TMP fore point ohhhh! is released and there's nothing there.

Re: Weird vibe on new assistant editor on TMP

PostPosted: Thu Feb 19, 2015 12:14 pm
by The Jim Jones Cocktail Hour
TwoGunBob wrote:Likely reason one, Bill's oiled up fingers slipped.
Possible reason two, an Editor overstepped her authority and accidentally burned TMP down when trying to update the Manufacturer's Directory.
Outside bets, Bill is preemptively clearing the boards so no one will miss them when TMP fore point ohhhh! is released and there's nothing there.


I'm amazed that he can manage to type at all with his free hand buried up to the wrist in his rectum. Only two possibilities occur. Firstly that he's had a small keyboard grafted to his small bowel or alternatively he controls the site by manipulating some form of joy stick by wiggling his arse.

Re: Weird vibe on new assistant editor on TMP

PostPosted: Thu Feb 19, 2015 12:27 pm
by Michael
Why is this a problem, or indeed even happening?

With 6 members of staff working on TMP, just why?

http://web.archive.org/web/201502191125 ... ?id=375381

Re: Weird vibe on new assistant editor on TMP

PostPosted: Thu Feb 19, 2015 12:28 pm
by General Paranoia
Editor in Chief Bill wrote:Just letting you know that due to technical problems, personal problems, car problems, the weather, and life in general, I am terribly behind on processing new memberships and reading my email and PMs.

Please be patient with me. I will catch up! sickly blue grin


The bastard never even mentioned it being all Frothers fault :cuss: :cuss: :cuss:


Editor in Chief Bill wrote:Something went wrong during the nightly maintenance phase, causing the main forum database's index to fail. I have no idea why. I believe we had a similar problem about five years ago, involving another database. The problem was fixed by reindexing the database.

Now we shall see if this is just a random glitch (I hope) or if it will recur.

This has nothing to do with the database work which Editor Julia has been doing.


It all seems rather vague, let's hope that the system can hold up for another 10 years until TMP 4.0 is ready. I assume he's working towards a state of nirvana where reindexing takes 24 hours leaving people no time to post on the site and increase the size of the database.

Re: Weird vibe on new assistant editor on TMP

PostPosted: Thu Feb 19, 2015 1:33 pm
by Bronshtein
martin goddard Sponsoring Member of TMP 19 Feb 2015 4:03 a.m. PST

No problem Bill. You are doing an appreciated job!!

martin

Okay - this a higher form of sarcasm right?

Re: Weird vibe on new assistant editor on TMP

PostPosted: Thu Feb 19, 2015 1:56 pm
by General Paranoia
Bronshtein wrote:
martin goddard Sponsoring Member of TMP 19 Feb 2015 4:03 a.m. PST

No problem Bill. You are doing an appreciated job!!

martin

Okay - this a higher form of sarcasm right?


Peter Pig has always been one of TMP's staunch supporters

Re: Weird vibe on new assistant editor on TMP

PostPosted: Thu Feb 19, 2015 2:09 pm
by Monkeyborg
General Paranoia wrote:Peter Pig has always been one of TMP's staunch supporters


As far as I'm aware, it's Peter Pig's only form of online advertising. Goddard NEEDS TMP.

Plus, he's part ostrich.

Re: Weird vibe on new assistant editor on TMP

PostPosted: Thu Feb 19, 2015 2:47 pm
by UrbanWulf
I see he's also just released the most exciting piece of scenery this year: A pile of logs. :froth:

Re: Weird vibe on new assistant editor on TMP

PostPosted: Thu Feb 19, 2015 4:50 pm
by Derek H
I think Bill coded the Peter Pig website - state of the art for 1995, just like TMP.

Re: Weird vibe on new assistant editor on TMP

PostPosted: Thu Feb 19, 2015 5:21 pm
by Clayface
It could be a lot worse - it could have been coded by the semi-literate 14 year old boy that appears to write their recent Rules.

Pat*

*Like their figures, quite like Martin Goddard, wish he would let someone that can read english have a dekko at his rule-sets before he publishes them.